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This 10-foot tall statue of UVA's founder was erected in Paris, near the Musée d'Orsay on the Left Bank, on July 4, 2006. A number of UVa alumni in France worked with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the city of Paris, and the Florence Gould Foundation to realize this project. (Photo credit: Elizabeth Head.)

French Department graduate students, along with the Language Program Director, enjoy a well-deserved pause café on the Lawn.

Thierry Girard: L'intelligence du paysage/Intelligent Landscapes, an exhibition of photographs, has officially opened. The show will remain on view, on the third floor of New Cabell Hall, until mid-May.

As part of our popular Fall Lecture Series, Jean-Claude Bonnet (CNRS) speaks about Flaubert to a packed house of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty (Oct. 28, 2014). (Photo by Spyros Simotas)

Radio Kaizman from Lyon, France performs at the Maison Francaise. (Photo by Amy Ogden)

Philippe Berthier, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, speaks in Professor Philippe Roger's class. He participated on at the "Stendahl's Many 'Lives': A Colloquium on Stendhal as a Biographer", September 19, 2014 organized by Ph.D student, Antoine Guibal. (photo by Antoine Guibal)

The Department of French congratulates the winners of the Intermediate French Concours d’écriture for the Spring 2014 semester.

Instructors nominated the top compositions from each of our seven French 2020 classes this spring, and a panel of judges selected the following three winners for their outstanding essays: